The New Jersey IPMS 2015 year came to a close on December 12th, with the annual party. Good food and good company were in abundance, as well as a great selection of the first-place winners from this year’s modeling contests.

We start of January with the F-4 Phantom group build completion, so if you took a kit please do all you can to make sure it’s finished by January’s meeting, and if not, bring along what you do have done.

Also for the January meeting, the tree building demonstration will continue. If you haven’t taken part yet, please feel free to join in, as the process will be described from the start, so everyone can catch-up.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

A little tardy in getting the photos uploaded from last month’s meeting, but here they are.  We had a fantastic turnout for #13 Night. The rules were that the subject had to encompass the number 13 in some way, and you guys got really creative: we had aircraft from VF-13, a Zero that’s serial number added up to 13, a 2013 car, and a diorama with a house address of 13 on the tiny mailbox door.

Photos are below. December’s meeting is on the 11th, and we’ll be celebrating the holiday season with our annual party. See everyone there.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

As someone once said, “There’s always a big turnout when there’s free food,” the September 11th, 2015 meeting of NJIPMS did indeed have a big turnout, and a couple of 6′ subs (of the food variety, not the nuke type) along with sides and an open bar.

The kit contest was Out of the Box, and Jon Da Silva will have the results of that in the next newsletter.

October is Russian Night, so finish your red-starred builds and get them on the table.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

The June meeting saw a great turnout. Italian Night was a big success, and Mark Rocca gave a tutorial on using oil paints as dot filters.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

The April meeting was a recap of all things MosquitoCon, with wings, pizza and beer provided by the club. Little business was discussed, yet it was revealed that a deal has been reached on the meeting place, and for the foreseeable future the club will continue to meet at the Knights of Columbus hall on the second Friday of every month.

Model turnout was light, as it often is after a MosquitoCon, but the models on display were top notch, as usual.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Friday the 13th turned out pretty well for the club meeting. The long anticipated Tin Can Group Build wrapped up, with Marc Rocca taking top honors for his destroyer build. Marc also demonstrated using EZ Line as a super-fine rigging material by showing how to strip it down to smaller individual fibers. There was also a find display of other kits on the table, everything from Century Series fighters to in-progress plank-on-frame sailing ships.

NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS: The March meeting will be a week earlier, on March 6th. There is a conflict with our usual meeting date.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Marc Rocca will present a workshop on the oil paint dot filter technique at the February meeting. You can see the technique in-progress to the left on his current build, a Type XXVII/B “Seehund” Midget Sub, Bronco 1/35th scale. (He’s also doing an online build of this subject on the Modelwarships.com website HERE)

Marc will also touch on rigging, using a new method to make finer strands of the popular rubberized EZ-Line.